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From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity

Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones on the Origins of Big Data

By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones | March 27, 2023

Samuel Issacharoff Searches for Glimmers of Hope to Strengthen Democracies Around the World

Samuel Issacharoff Searches for Glimmers of Hope to Strengthen Democracies Around the World

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 27, 2023

Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy

“There can be no fiction without appropriation. Because we fiction writers are predators too.”

By Arundhati Roy | March 24, 2023

Nefarious Intentions and Persecuted Victims: On the Rise of Conspiracy Theories

Nefarious Intentions and Persecuted Victims: On the Rise of Conspiracy Theories

Sander van der Linden Investigates the Language and Psychology Behind Conspiratorial Narratives

By Sander van der Linden | March 24, 2023

Dana Sachs on the Volunteers at the Heart of the Worst Human Displacement Crisis in Europe Since WWII

Dana Sachs on the Volunteers at the Heart of the Worst Human Displacement Crisis in Europe Since WWII

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 24, 2023

Kerry Howley on the Seduction of a Singular “Truth” in the “Deep State” America of Violence, Paranoia, and Surveillance

Kerry Howley on the Seduction of a Singular “Truth” in the “Deep State” America of Violence, Paranoia, and Surveillance

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 22, 2023

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Natalie Koch Untangles the Weirdly Connected Environmental Fates of Arizona and Saudi Arabia

By Keen On | March 22, 2023

Brad DeLong on the Banking Crisis and the New Economic Laws of Our Social Media Age

By Keen On | March 21, 2023

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

By Rachel Jamison Webster | March 21, 2023

Richard Duncan Outlines the Monetary Policy That Can Restore the American Economy

Richard Duncan Outlines the Monetary Policy That Can Restore the American Economy

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 21, 2023

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Why Female Novelists Should Plunder the Voices of Men in Their Work

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai on Why Female Novelists Should Plunder the Voices of Men in Their Work

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By Keen On | March 21, 2023

Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

Martin Puchner on How Culture is Simultaneously Owned by Nobody and By All of Us

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By Keen On | March 21, 2023

Little House of Propaganda: Homesteading Myths and the Sentimentality of Self-Reliance

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“Gray Area is What Novels Can Do That Twitter Cannot.” Rebecca Makkai on Incorporating #MeToo in Her New Novel

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Elisabeth B. Armstrong on the Most Consequential Anti-Colonial Feminist Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

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Peter Wehner on Vengeance, Forbearance, and Healing in Trump’s America

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